The Hat Pinned with Flowers (Le Chapeau Épinglé)
1898
Medium
Color lithograph on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
image: 24 3/16 x 19 9/16 in. (61.5 x 49.7 cm) sheet: 35 5/8 x 24 15/16 in. (90.5 x 63.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931
Accession Number
31.82.5
Tags
Art Historical Context
In 1898, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, leading figure of French Impressionism, created *The Hat Pinned with (Le Chapeau Épinglé)*, a color lithograph on off-white laid paper. This print captures the artist's signature fascination with light, color, and everyday beauty, here embodied in a young girl adorned with a hat festooned with blossoms. Measuring an impressive image size of 24 3/16 x 19 9/16 inches, it exemplifies Renoir's late-career exploration of printmaking, allowing him to disseminate his luminous style to a wider audience beyond oil paintings. Lithography, a planographic technique using g...
About the Artist
Auguste Renoir · 1841–1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a founding figure of Impressionism whose luminous depictions of Parisian leisure, sensuous female forms, and sun-dappled landscapes made him one of the most beloved painters in Western art history. Born in Limoges to a working-class family, Renoir began as a porcelain painter before pursuing fine arts, and this early craft experience gave him facility with the...